Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 2004, 6:38 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Kentucky. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2004, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2004, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pulaski County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KJKL 042238 TORJKL KYC199-042330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 638 PM EDT WED AUG 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PULASKI COUNTY IN KENTUCKY. * UNTIL 730 PM EDT. * AT 638 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR FAUBUSH...OR 12 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NANCY AROUND 645 PM EDT PULASKI COUNTY PARK AROUND 650 PM EDT ELIHU AROUND 700 PM EDT BURNSIDE AROUND 705 PM EDT RUTH AROUND 710 PM EDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. FOR YOUR SAFETY MOVE TO A BASEMENT AND GET UNDER SOMETHING STURDY. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING...IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3719 8489 3701 8494 3686 8431 3710 8423 $$ RAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 58 min |
| Aug 4, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 65 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.